“Honest to God, you couldn’t write it. Whenever I saw this morning, I near collapsed.”

Shealyn had told her the situation was “bedlam, everybody running, everybody out down the street”.

After the initial blast, a second bomb then went off.

The last she heard from her daughter, who is in fifth year, was that she had taken refuge in a pub and was “playing cards with a lot of French travellers”.

Their leaders are understood to be with them.

Clare said: “Some of the other kids, girls that were with them, were crying; they were really scared. But Shealyn has been through so much in her life, so much – it’s just one thing after the next after the next after the next...

“Shealyn rallies into ‘lets get through this mode’. That’s the way she’s always been.”

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